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This bill amends Mississippi law to remove the statute of limitations for the crime of sexual battery, meaning that individuals can be prosecuted for this offense regardless of how much time has passed since it occurred. Currently, most crimes have a general two-year statute of limitations, which is the legal deadline for initiating prosecution, but this bill specifically exempts sexual battery from that general rule, aligning it with other serious offenses like murder and rape for which there is no time limit for prosecution. The bill also makes a technical correction by removing a reference to a specific subsection of sexual battery that is no longer relevant.

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https://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2026/pdf/history/SB/SB2078.xml